Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Users digest V14 #45
From: Bernard <5521.g23@g23.relcom.ru>
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 17:22:25 +0300

Steve Huntley wrote:

> The Minilux and other current Leica p&s models all have the same flaw:
> You depress the shutter button, the camera stores the exposure
> information and STORES the focus but does NOT actually focus until you
> depress the shutter button all the way--creating a delay that makes
> the cameras not very useful for anything but static poses.  The now
> defunct Mini III, on the other hand, actually focuses the lens on the
> initial slight depression of the shutter button so that when you
> actually take the picture there is no delay.

The minilux does this, too. At least mine does: you depress the shutter
release slightly, and the camera takes all the needed reading and
focusses the lens. Then you take the pic at the "decisive moment".

>  HCB armed with a Minilux might find himself recording the moment
> after the decisive moment.

Wasn't he the master of anticipation, then? Clairvoyant?

Bernard